Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but… — William Butler Yeats
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague… — Charlton Laird
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the… — John Henry Carver
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and… — Charlotte Rampling
Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early… — Charlotte Rampling
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Woodrow Wilson
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. — Hugh Prather
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I… — Takeshi Kitano
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final… — M H Abrams
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the… — Barrows Dunham
I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague… — Lawren Harris
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious… — Napoleon Bonaparte
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential. Many people fail at this vital point. The goal must… — Norman Vincent Peale
Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it… — Frederick Lenz
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to… — Karl Popper
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films… — Gaspard Ulliel
I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if… — Guy Pearce
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The… — Hugo Black

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